Dark Apparition | Jackie O's Pub & Brewery

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Thick dark opaque brown. I got zero head on the pour. No lacing, nothing.
Smells strongly of bourbon and vanilla.
This is a smooth tasting beer. Goes down like liquid chocolate. I've got notes of nuts, coffee, vanilla, burnt caramel, all swimming in a bourbon bath. As advertised on the label, it's heavy on the malt. Also heavy on the alcohol at 12.5% but that's all right with me. Overall a delicious beer although a bit pricey at $11.99 bottle. However it feels good as an ohioan to drink local.

Pours black with a finger of beige head that retains fairly well. Aroma is chocolate, cocoa, toffee, with a hearty backbone of roasted malts. Flavor profile has roasted malts throughout. Chocolate (both milk and dark), cocoa, toffee, and caramel add additional complexities to the flavor profile, all while remaining well balanced and simplistic. Mouth feel is medium-thick with a fine graininess, and velvety feel. Overall, it's a quality straightforward Russian imperial stout. No added flavors, or barrel use, just a good quality heavy stout.

Very dark brown, cloudy and fluid with a great foam that quickly retires. Intense and persistent nose but less defined than what is felt when drinking. A lot of berries, dried fruit, licorice, chocolate, vinous, dry and clean, harmonious and balanced

Poured into a Stone flute. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing opaque black in the glass, with a quarter finger light brown head that dissipates into patches. Aroma of dark toasted malt, molasses, slight cocoa, coffee and toffee. Flavor follows, with slightly sweet dark toasted malt, light molasses, milk and dark chocolate, hints of dark stone fruit and caramel, light hops. Finishes with long lingering chocolate dark malt with light char and hop bitterness. Medium bodied with light to medium creaminess and nice mouth feel. A full flavored and balanced dark stout with lots of mixed, light flavor notes. The profile is classic Russian imperial stout, but has a nice mild hop bitterness to the finish, which leans a little to the American style. A flavorful and integrated stout with fine chocolate character. Worthy.